Li H, Ruby J, Charon N, Kuramitsu H
Department of Oral Biology, State University of New York at Buffalo, 14214, USA.
J Bacteriol. 1996 Jun;178(12):3664-7. doi: 10.1128/jb.178.12.3664-3667.1996.
Treponema denticola is implicated in the etiology of periodontal diseases. We now report the construction of a specific flgE mutant of T. denticola ATCC 35405 following electroporation utilizing an erythromycin resistance cassette inserted into an flgE DNA fragment. The resulting mutant displays no visible motility and lacks periplasmic flagella as would be predicted from inactivation of the gene for the flagellar hook protein.
齿垢密螺旋体与牙周疾病的病因有关。我们现在报告,在利用插入flgE DNA片段的红霉素抗性盒进行电穿孔后,构建了齿垢密螺旋体ATCC 35405的特定flgE突变体。如鞭毛钩蛋白基因失活所预测的那样,所得突变体没有可见的运动性且缺乏周质鞭毛。